Solar Staring Silent

Jimmy stared, as he did every day, down at the lifeless rocky water planet. It was a perfect view from the center of the solar system. Although, if Jimmy thought about it, he had to admit that he'd let the place go in the last 250,000 years.

The gentle giant contemplated memories of younger days. Entire millenia in which so many things happened, but none of them all that unique to begin with. Back when Old Jim was so young and tiny as to barely be yellow. Then, after a few hundred years, our stellar hero began to see things that befuddled and excited his brain of fusion. Life.

The first time it was noticed, it was so short as to be hard to remember. Only a few of the slippery pieces of kelp had left to wash back into the ocean, before a tree fell and crashed in between the divide between ocean and land was kept about for a couple hours. Jeff first stared in open wonder at the flopping, greyish things flopping in the water.

He didn't know what he was seeing, but the Earth's light and life was smiling down upon them for the first time, in genuine interest and happiness rather than benign appreciation. This was never meant to last long in nature, though. In keeping with the laws of thermodynamics the ocean water soon evaporated from the tiny mud puddle the fish had been trapped in. He was confused when they started flopping more desperately and flapping the strange skin on their heads.

In mere moments, our young star quickly found his first moments of weeping and grief. In the very moment he had seen something interesting... Something that did stuff... They had died. It soon occurred to Jimmy that it was his own heat which had done the deed. The very tides brought about by his nightly game with the moon that caused such horrible things to happen. Jimmy decided not to play with the moon anymore, and wept his final sobs for the precious fish he now felt responsible for.